Amazon to cut 14,000 jobs

30-Oct-2025

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Amazon announced plans to cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as part of a sweeping restructuring effort linked to its growing investment in artificial intelligence and cost-cutting initiatives. 

The layoffs mark the company’s largest since 2023, when it eliminated around 27,000 positions.

Employees affected by the latest cuts were notified on October 28, according to Beth Galetti, Amazon’s Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology. 

Impacted workers will have 90 days to seek new roles within the company, after which those unable or unwilling to transition will receive severance pay, outplacement assistance, and health benefits.

Amazon currently employs about 350,000 corporate staff and 1.56 million people overall. The new reductions represent nearly 4 per cent of its corporate workforce. 

CEO Andy Jassy, who has led a series of cost-cutting initiatives since taking over in 2021, said earlier this year that advances in generative AI would likely shrink Amazon’s corporate ranks in coming years by automating routine functions.